| A | B |
|---|
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for Spain to find the Indies |
| John Cabot | Sailed from England to find a water route to Asia |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | sailed from France to find a water route to Asia |
| Henry Hudson | Sailed for the Dutch to find a water route through North America |
| explore | to travel in unfamiliar places to learn about them |
| latitudes | measures how far north or south a place is from the equator |
| parallels | measure how far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian |
| colony | a place ruled by another country |
| immigrants | a person who comes to a new country or place to live |
| patroon | a landowner |
| slavery | making one person the property of another |
| Peter Stuyvesant | govenor of New Netherland |
| Bergen | town built with walls around it to keep out the Lenape |
| proprietors | a person who owned land and had the right to start a colony |
| constitution | a document that containst he basic rules of a colony or country |
| assembly | group of lawmakers |
| delegate | a person chosen to speak or vote for others |
| Wiliam Penn | a Quaker who helped write the constitution for West Jersey |
| industry | the making of things on a large scale (especially by people and machines working together) |
| indentured servants | people who agreed to work for a landowner in exchange for a trip from Europe to the colonies |
